vertical equity. In particular, the former index measures deviations from the fundamental principle that equals be treated …

This paper describes a new, industry-adjusted index of state environmental compliance costs from 1977 to 1994. The … index has two principal advantages: it controls for states' industrial compositions, and it can be calculated for 17 years … and 1994. Third, this cost index is negatively correlated with subjective indices of state environmental efforts compiled …

This paper develops and characterizes an index of trade policy restrictiveness defined as the uniform tariff equivalent … volume-equivalent index to the Trade Restrictiveness Index welfare-equivalent measure changes in the generalised mean and … that the new index frequently gives a very different picture than do standard indexes …

treatment, rather than prices of fixed bundles of inputs. We outline features of a proposed new experimental price index -- a … medical care expenditure price index -- that is more suitable for evaluation and analyses of medical care cost changes, than …

A number of analysts have claimed recently that the consumer price index overstates the annual increase in the cost of … living. This paper develops a framework for studying measurement problems in the consumer price index and systematically … show how better to measure medical care prices, the paper presents a prototypical price index for cataract surgery. This …